ok ... what is the roots' classic album?? things fall apart??? illadelph halflife?? LOL
those are by far their best albums and they are good ... but they are not classics my dude ... put those two albums up against obfcl and enter the 36 ... NOT EVEN CLOSE
black thought is an outstanding mc .... dice raw is gahbbage ... go listen to the song "aint saying nuffing new" arguably the best song on TFA ... listen to how black thought rips it and dice raw ruins it LOL ... there's alot of that on roots albums ... they'll have songs that are top notch then turn around and have some dry erry boring beats right after that
im not gonna argue wu classics ... i like all the albums you named .. but as far as classics maybe im more critical than others ... fact is yall think any album you like is a classic ... i thought a classic was an album with no bad songs on it
and now to the mother of the stupidity in your post .... what did nwa do that was revolutionary?? LOL sweet god in heaven how old are you?? SMH
hmmm lets see
nwa CREATED GANGSTA RAP ...name one gangsta rapper before them ... go head and say kool g rap or rakim so we can all laugh at you ... that was mafioso my friend .. they were immulating italian mobster ... nwa were the first to be gangsta rappers ... as in crips, blood, gangsta diciples etc etc that all these kids today want to be a part of
nwa CREATED the need for hip hop albums to have the parental advisory sticker on it
songs like fuck the police, boys in the hood, a bitch is a bitch, and straight outta compton caused such an uproar in hip hop and in america period that law enforcement agencies, politicians, and social figures forced the record industry to have this advisory on any album that contained any explicit lyrics
nwa CREATED the need for street credibility. people didnt know if nwa actually lived there raps or if they were just speaking on the surroundings they grew up in ... hence the birth of street credibility. you now had to make it clear if you lived the life you rap about
nwa CREATED the market for rappers to sell huge amounts of records. nwa's controversial and ground breaking style of rap and image is what took hip hop from a small entreprenuership to a mass global marketing cash cow. it was nwa that made rebellious and curious suburban teens pay attention to rap music AND start consuming it. there are only 1 or 2 rap acts to ever go platinum before nwa. the beastie boys ... AND MAYBE ... MAYBE run dmc. each and every album that nwa ever created went PLATINUM PLUS during the time of its original release date and they are the first TO EVER do that in hip hop. before nwa rappers had party songs etc to help sell their records .. nwa was the first to sell off of content alone ... their first release straight outta compton WENT PLATINUM with no video on mtv or bet and absolutely no radio play.
NWA created the whole putting small towns on the map factor in hip hop ..... no one heard of compton period before nwa. after that many towns who you never even heard of could have rappers ... you no longer had to be from or go to a major city to be discovered
WHAT IN JESUS CHRIST NAME IS NOT REVOLUTIONARY ABOUT THAT?? how old are you like 20?? LOL
technically nwa is the first rap group to have its members go on to have successful solo careers
easy e had two or three platinum albums and is the first rapper to have his own label and distribution deal .... BEFORE MASTER P BEFORE JAY Z AND PUFFY AND SUGE KNIGHT!!
ice cube has had tons of platinum albums
dr dre has had two or three platinum solo albums not to mention death row records eminem and so on
even mc ren had a gold album "kizz my black azz" ... THEIR LEAST POPULAR MEMBER WENT GOLD!! LoL
the reason i say technically nwa was the first is because before nwa there was the juice crew .... they had rappers such as big daddy kane, kool g rap, biz mark, masta ace, and one of the earliest super producers marley marl. they all went on to have successful careers but the juice crew was never signed as a group and never had a commercial release as THE JUICE CREW
but as a hip hop head i refuse to give nwa that title ... juice crew was doing it before a record deal was even realistic for an artist who wasnt curtis blow or run dmc
shame on you for sayin nwa said anything that any other gangsta rapper said ... they were the first to ever say it ... then all the others started saying it and copying it. they are the reason you hear so many people doing it ... they are not just another rap group in the midst of all the hype ... THEY CREATED IT EINSTEIN!!!! LOL SMH
